The World Travel and Tourism Council meeting in Buenos Aires has announced a formal partnership with the UNFCCC to jointly tackle climate damage caused by global tourism.

WTTC AND UN CLIMATE CHANGE IN NEW PARTNERSHIP TO TACKLE GLOBAL WARMING

APRIL 26, 2018
ENVIRONMENT / TOURISM

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN Climate Change) have agreed a common agenda for climate action in tourism.

Agreed at the WTTC Global Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week, the partnership backs goals set by the Paris Agreement to maintain temperature levels at 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and the economic importance of tourism to the world’s economy (10% of GDP and one in 10 jobs), the Common Agenda sets out a framework for the two organisations to recognise and address the linkages between tourism and climate change.

Announcing the agreement, Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change advised “this is the first time the tourism sector has actively engaged on a global level with the UN Climate agenda.

“We recognise that tourism has a huge role to play in addressing climate change. While climate change itself poses significant risks to some tourism destinations, in many of the most high-risk areas, tourism can provide opportunities for communities to build resilience to its impacts. At the same time, as a fast-growing sector, tourism has a responsibility to ensure this growth is sustainable and sits within the parameters set by the Paris Agreement.

Personal inspections of environmentally endangered eco-tourist hotspots will likely be required, maybe even a rota of permanent monitoring in the most sensitive locations, to ensure places of special ecological significance are properly preserved.

WUWT is going to have to go some to come up with a funnier story this week!
How can an industry that utterly depends upon fossil-fuel powered transport over vast distances even pretend to be concerned with CO2 emissions?
I’d love to hear an explanation!

Dependent on fossil fuel? Heavens no!!! In the future all tourist transport to and from the Maldives will be by trireme. All passengers will be expected to participate in two four-hour shifts at the oars each day. Gourmet refreshments will be served.

The WTTC is trying to play the appeasement and complacency card. They have not learned the lesson from oil companies who have been trying to do the same. It’s just one more example of the religion of man-made climate change continuing to make inroads, despite increasingly successful attacks from climate realists on the science supporting said religion.

Several people have suggested that the tourism industry is doing this for the publicity. That may be the case, but it may also be the case that people will begin to choose companies or destinations that show “CO2 awareness,” and it CERTAINLY is about the dangers faced by the industry. Think of how many beachfront resorts there are, or island getaways. Much of their interest will be in adaptation, I imagine. How can the beaches and properties be protected without hindering the view? Who bears the cost? The engineering and construction needed to protect the world’s oceanside cities from a meter rise in sea level would be phenomenal. Skeptics scoff, of course. But what if you’re wrong?

Really, folks, just think about it for a little while. What if the sea level rises by 3 feet by 2100? That’s 82 years from now, a single lifetime. Millions of people displaced from the Miami area alone. There is no building sea barriers there because the water percolates up through the land. And the Bayou? New Orleans? Forget it.

One Syrian in Northern Europe has far larger a carbon dioxide footprint than one Syrian in any warm country. But, they want them here because it is a way to punish the bourgoise, i.e. anyone who works.

Of course, Syrians are not climate refugees. They might be refugees from Assad and the religion of peace. Sad that they tend to bring their troubles with them.

Both parties will benefit. Tourism will be protected so that this important industry can generate enough money for locals to “adapt” to climate change. The UN will figure out a way to enact some tourism tax for the coffers to help “mitigate” climate change. TeeDerTotter!

There have been innumerable cases of “refugees” visiting the country which they “fled” from. The persecution they suffered in their native lands apparently stops as soon as they are granted refugee status. They also find the need to travel between many “safe” countries before applying for asylum wherever the social benefits are most generous, with the added benefits also creating a larger “carbon footprint”.

I think the UNFCCC will have their holiday destinations subsidised for some time. I’m sure climate change meetings must be held near the the tourist attractions of the world. Not like in Austin, Texas, or just somewhere in Delaware.

Anyone interested can see the agenda in microcosm by understanding “The Yosemite Plan.” Restricting access and making the income decline up by raising the costs so that only the rich can fully participate. Note. Despite being soundly rejected via public outcry, the entirety of The Yosemite Plan is being implemented piecemeal and under the radar.

Well goodbye to holidays in the Maldives then, unless you go there by sailing boat, made out of recycled paperclips. And no permisson to enter harbour showing 500 kg of collected plastic waste from the sea.

The airport will be closed and officially designated as “Imperialistic climate destruction project forced on the Maldives”.

The WTTC is an industry group whose purpose is to promote tourism and advocate for the (international?) tourist industry. As far as I can tell, they’re legit. link

In the recent WUWT story on the Maldives, someone noted the conflicting interests: They want climate cash and they depend on tourism. My guess is that the WTTC isn’t acting out of the goodness of their hearts. They have a vested interest in making sure that CAGW alarmism doesn’t bork their industry. We have only to look to Venezuela to see how a zealot can mess things up. The WTTC has to find ways to keep the tourism industry off the zealots’ radars. Looking like they are doing something about CAGW is one way.

Perhaps the IPCC and WTTC should consider the destination Hot Spot of Pripyat, Ukraine for their next meeting spot.
Enough vacant housing for 50,000
Warm nights
And everyone would be Aglow after the conferences were over

What are they going to tell people? Stay at home, don’t drive, fly, or eat? And no romantic getaways because we don’t want the possibility of accidentally causing procreation.
Geez. Is the flying saucer coming soon?